Well, here we all are again, then.

Just about.

I think it's fair to say that this year [*] has not quite gone to plan. I mean, we're nowhere near 2020 levels of off-the-rails, but it's all been a bit disorganised.

( Seasonal Shambles )

Well, it's been a while, hasn't it? Every so often I genuinely intend to get back to posting regularly (because my memory no longer works desperately well, and I appreciate old entries here telling me what I did). But then... life gets in the way, and so on ( Read more... )

Aye up, gang. It's Christmas ( Read more... )

Having bought virtually no clothes in the past two years (it's not really like I've been anywhere), I splashed[*] out on some new running gear. Including - as an experiment - a pair of fancy anti-chafe runners' socks.

So now I have discovered the concept of having my socks on the wrong feet :(

[*] I mean, I only went to Decathlon. And I bought one ( Read more... )

Hey. It's been a while. But it's Christmas, which is a time for traditions. So here we are.

Last year, there was a brief hiatus in the annual visitation to my family home. This year we're back for a Completely Normal Christmas. Definitely Normal. ChrisC and I have piled up the motorway[*], singing along to the Christmas compilation albums he made, ( Read more... )

Overly-long answers to an old-skool meme lifted from huskyteer.

( 2020 Hindsight )

Oh, I forgot. Additional...

Christmas content! I have a very short Christmas story that was published a few days ago, you can read it on the Gray Sisters website if you're interested. Be warned, though... it was written and submitted some months ago, when I didn't know that a bleak and miserable Christmas story was literally the last thing anyone ( Read more... )

Aye up. It's Christmas, you know the drill. I head up to my parents' housein Durham, and write a post about how we have a nice fire and lots of beer and so on.

( Well. )

( Nothing to see here, just me grumbling about political takes on pandemics )

A very brief commercial interlude ( Read more... )